Posted on 08/01/2003 2:05:33 PM PDT by Jeff Head
TODAY'S FREE TRADE IS NOT ABOUT THE FREE MARKET
We are in a very real battle in this nation and it is a battle for our heart and soul. It is spread out on many, many fronts...education, foreign policy, work ethic (individually and societally), immigration, the economy, moral values...and the list goes on.
Let's focus on the economy and one significant part of it...a major, growing part of it. Free Trade and foreign outsourcing.
I was going to entitle this article..."I used to make something"...or..."We used to make something in this country". But, I thought better of it and realized that such a statment was really focusing on the tail end of the issue as opposed to the root.
So, instead, I am simply calling it, "Today's Free Trade is not about the Free Market."
And it is so, today's Free Trade is NOT about the free market. Instead, in a very similar manner to other key issues in this battle for the heart and soul of America, what is happening is that a very craftily wordsmithed message of "Free Trade" has been put forth that people have bought into, thinking "How could anyone be against free trade? Why, isn't that all-American?".
Like with abortion, "How could anyone be against a woman's right to choose? Isn't that all American?".
In both cases, the craftily worded title has nothing remotely to do with what is actually going on.
The free market is the system our founders based our commerce on, where the intrinsic, underlying moral values of the people involved in the free market governed the equitable, free exchange of goods and services for other goods and services or currency. Sort of like John Adams said regarding the Constitution...
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798It is that underlying moral foundation coupled woth our liberty that made the Free Market in America the envy of the world, just like those same issues made our governmental form the envy of the world.
Well, as far as I am conerned, Adam's words could be tailored to this topic like so, ie... The Free Market was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the economy of any other.
This is a basic truth. Like our government, our free market was not supposed to be very regulated or burdened with miriad rules. The people and the companies were to use their own moral foundation to govern themselves. But, when the moral foundation is removed, you do not have what was intended for the Constitution, and you do not have a true free market.
When we use our foreign policy and economic policy to set up shop and trade with countries, societies, organizations or to implement policies that exploit their people's mercilessly, who keep them down without a hope for true liberty or freedom, who trample the moral values our own system was based upon...and when we do it knowingly, without compuction for those very underlying values, then we do not create a free market...no, that free trade has nothing whatsoever to do with, and is in no way similar to the FREE MARKET, rather, it serves to corrupt it.
Such notions, such actions are in fact wordsmithing for popularizing and putting forth a policy to drain the United States manufacturing, technological, agricultural, energy and other critical industries in order to weaken us...plain and simple...and it is working.
Based on my own travels on behalf of US firms and then later consulting for them...that is what is really happening here in my own opinion, and until we refocus as a people on that underlying moral foundation and the absolute need for it...we will continue to lose ground.
By the way, those same principles that are working at the societal level, have equal application at the personal level too...in fact, in the end it is the sum of their working at the personal level that creates the issue at the societal level.
Jeff Head
Engineering Consultant and,
Author of The Dragon's Fury Series
How current conditions could lead to World War
August 1, 2003
Emmett, Idaho
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That's what I meant by them and I was speaking of what people are tyically referring to when they speak of that term from what I have been able to gather.
As I stated, there may well be very influential people of that persuasion involved in advancing that type of world governance view...but it is certainly not limited to them. It exists amongst people of all races, creeds and colors where certain individuals or groups amongst them get it in their head that they can run things for the rest of us better than we can run it freely oursleves.
Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and others of that ilk were infected with the same poison. We have it within elements of our own government as well, particularly and in the greatest numbers (IMHO) amongst the liberal/socialist/marxist leadership in the DNC.
CARepubGal, there are many terms for those opposed to our constitutional Republic and the liberty it represents...World Governance, Third Way, One World, etc., etc.
I believe it is important to understand what people are talking about before we shoot the messenger as regards these terms.
In that regard, I happen to know Eustace personally and know that he is not rascist, that he and his wife and kids are pretty much all-American and that he is concerned about his nation nad his kids future and welfare. In my travels across this nation he took the time to go out of his way a couple of times and meet me so we could sit down and eat together. Most of us on FR share the same concerns Eustace and his wife have.
I'm not into neutral terms when it comes to the defense of my liberty and way of life...heck, anyone who reads my book series knows that. That's not to say that those neutral terms are bad in and of themsleves, it just (at least from my perspective) tends to water down and deflect the focus.
I do not believe Zionism, as it is used in conjunction with those seeking world governance, is a racist term at all. As I stated, it is no more racist to oppose that definition than it is to oppose the NAACP. I do believe a lot of time and effort has been put into getting us all to believe it is racist and that raises red flags to me.
Now, that is not to say that there aren't racists who use the term, just like there are racists who oppose the NAACP. That does not mean we should cease our opposition to organizations like the NAACP, just make sure we are doing so for the right reasons and are not manuevered into leaving them alone entirely.
Socialist/Marxist/One Worlders/Third Wayers/World Governance/Zionist (as defined here) ... all of them are part and parcel of the same effort. And that effort is to destroy individual liberty, knowledge of and the exercise of unalienable rights, the free market and the ability for individual to defned that way of life.
I'll tell you, the biggest conspiracy of all is who is behind ALL of that, and he has been conspiring to fight these Godly principles for thousands of years, since the very beginning. That's why understanding morality and the part God has played in all of this (whom the framers rghtly ascribed our rights as being endowed by) is so critical. In fact, in the end, it is indespensable in this fight.
...and that brings us back, at least in my opinion, to the topic of this thread. Which is about how the free market is really based on the same moral foundation as our constitution and that when those priciples are removed from it...it ceases to be the true free market and becomes corrupted. That is what is really going on here in my view.
Best Fregards to all
Unless your goal is to reduce your own nation to slave status." - TM
Exactly.
I suggest you look up Theodore Herzl and his World Zionist Organization. Here's a link(laudatory at the Zionist Movement Pavilion):
. Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) Herzl, Benjamin Zev (Theodor), 1860 - 1904 Writer and statesman. Founder of national Zionism and the World Zionist Organization, which elevated the Jewish problem to an international political subject of primary importance. His name and lifework, the...... http://www.wzo.org.il/home/movement/herzl.htm
but they sure do want to be the masters.
I have only gone back threehundred years and Rothschild's name keeps coming up. His associates Jacob Schiff and Paul Warburg keep coming up. And I'm talking about the whole three hundred years. To me that proves conspiracy , for the same agenda/goal to be persued through generations by the same families.
I don't read about them saving starving children , only making profits from wars , that some say they helped cause.
I don't go that far , because what happens behind closed doors is very hard to prove. I'm sure if American's knew how much of a role their own government played in New York , there would be some people hanging from trees.
I'm not asking for anyone to destroy America's government , only put it back in its place.
I don't believe the federal reserve is good for American's , the working class anyway.
I've argued enough about the people who own the majority of the stock of the privately owned Central Bank , so I won't do it here , but it all goes back to Rothschild , Warburg and Schiff.
I'm not through looking for a solution , so if you have other names and actions I'm more than happy to learn.
I do not want to cause hate towards any one Race , but I won't "not" talk about people I believe are doing my country harm. I have never had a good word to say about Bush or Clinton or Rockefeller.
The Truth isn't very pretty , but I believe the future of America should be decided and based on Truth. How else can we make the changes necessary for a better future.
There is nothing I want more than to walk through my cities neighborhoods and be able to greet everyone as neighbors. The differences between us , many I don't even know , have never bothered me. As long as you mean me or my family no harm.
I guess if all Jews don't want to be accused along with the likes of the Rothschild's they should quit defending them. Appearance is important.
In the end, the fight is a moral and a spiritual one at its root. Basic, fundamental moral principle and rights against compulsion and control. There are many, many components from economics to education to politics to social issues, etc.
Like I said, if you fight for liberty, true liberty based on those moral principles and our unalienable rights...then you will be arrayed against all of these forces...whose strings are no doubt being pulled by, as Paul would say in the New testament, spiritual wickedness in high places.
Anyhow, as I said, I am focusing this thread on the trade issues...and how the so called free trade of the day is, IMHO, a sham that is hurting the free market and our republic.
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